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so, in an environment where you can't talk about medicare, in an environment where no one will talk about base broadeners, everyone talks about loophole closers, how do you, how do you get from here to there? and let me ask doug, first, you said that the environment will be different in 2013. other than this pressure you talked about pro the rating agencies what will get these guys singing kumbayah with each other? >> they're not going to sing kumbayah. i don't want to pretend that they will. this environment is the worst but this would be the right time to fix the fiscal cliff so we don't have to worry about the economics. not happening. lame duck would be the second worst. and for all the reasons i outlined i think it is very unlikely we'll do anything real significant. do the little bit you can to avoid damage and get to next year where, i think they're going to be outside pressures from capital markets and rating agencies and there's going to have to be great leadership out of the white house to get this done, and it will be hard. i'm not saying it will be easy. i'm not going to say i
so, in an environment where you can't talk about medicare, in an environment where no one will talk about base broadeners, everyone talks about loophole closers, how do you, how do you get from here to there? and let me ask doug, first, you said that the environment will be different in 2013. other than this pressure you talked about pro the rating agencies what will get these guys singing kumbayah with each other? >> they're not going to sing kumbayah. i don't want to pretend that they...
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i grew up in a religious environment and i am proud of it. i was into the priest. i'm proud of that. i would probably enormously angry right now. so i am grateful for my faith and on and on apologetic about it. >> this is pretty remarkable we started talking a little bit about how it has changed over time. we could have also added to the 19th amendment and women becoming a part of this part of the democratic inclusion. [laughter] but most of the amendments have made it more perfect. they got rid of it. >> ausley understand. >> it is pretty extraordinary. the constitution frees up every american to be eligible for public office, and there is no religious test and that wasn't the prominent feature of the state constitutions. a lot of them actually had religious tests. >> you have the establishment in religion. so, on a understand that but i simply say that the country moved on. i grew up at a time people were respectful of religion and religious people. on grew up when the church was open all the time and nobody broke and and nobody engaged in sacrilegious conduct. i
i grew up in a religious environment and i am proud of it. i was into the priest. i'm proud of that. i would probably enormously angry right now. so i am grateful for my faith and on and on apologetic about it. >> this is pretty remarkable we started talking a little bit about how it has changed over time. we could have also added to the 19th amendment and women becoming a part of this part of the democratic inclusion. [laughter] but most of the amendments have made it more perfect. they...
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this is an assignment, the radio and tv environment much like the search engine environment. where competition is a click away. it wasn't a mouse click back and. you have to click the dial on your television set. competition was always a click away. there was no cost to switch and you didn't have to pay to switch. so it was easy to switch into situations and you might say how could the exercise market power. the answer is that you exercise market power to the volume and intensity of advertising. advertising is how you make money, and the value of advertising is how you boost how much money you can make. the easiest is to start i think there's a lot of discussion about whether google has market power in the advertising market. that's an interesting discussion. that's not the place to start. the place to start is in search engines, and we think company with a great successful product of my tech company of market power? if they did have market power, how would they go about exercising at? and the answer is they would have more advertising. they would have more ads and because it
this is an assignment, the radio and tv environment much like the search engine environment. where competition is a click away. it wasn't a mouse click back and. you have to click the dial on your television set. competition was always a click away. there was no cost to switch and you didn't have to pay to switch. so it was easy to switch into situations and you might say how could the exercise market power. the answer is that you exercise market power to the volume and intensity of...
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but on the other hand, we can't panic if an environment of that -- in an environment of that sort. we, you know, you said how transitions are unpredictable, and there are all kinds of -- i don't remember the term that you used. but when you look at all of that, this is the time not to pull back. there's still important american interests. you need to engage. the outcome is not decided. there is a battle going on in each one of these countries. and if you don't weigh in diplomatically and economically and militarily if need be, the outcome isn't going to be to your liking, and the worst thing to do is to assume it's all the same, you can't do anything about it and pull back. that is a mistake, and i think panic is the wrong strategy. >> okay. i think those are two strong endorsements for an interest-based approach. i think the challenge in the democratic society, ours as well as on the other side, is whether you can sustain support for such an approach. hisham said love's got nothing to do with it. >> i like to quote -- [laughter] tina turner. >> i love your wife. >> look, i know ti
but on the other hand, we can't panic if an environment of that -- in an environment of that sort. we, you know, you said how transitions are unpredictable, and there are all kinds of -- i don't remember the term that you used. but when you look at all of that, this is the time not to pull back. there's still important american interests. you need to engage. the outcome is not decided. there is a battle going on in each one of these countries. and if you don't weigh in diplomatically and...
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think of the impact it would have on the environment, the ability to create jobs here in nevada. let's always go back to the jobs and the ability to create jobs in america. i believe the sage grouse gets listed. i do. you need a senator that will fight back and realize and understand that talk to this administration and say if you reelect a we're in trouble. it will be a big, big concern. spent our next question comes from -- >> congresswoman berkley, in 2008 you wrote a letter to representative peter stark who chaired the house subcommittee over medicare, urging them to oppose lowering medicare rates for dialysis. why in a letter did you not point out that your husband is a kidney specialist which could be a potential conflict of interest? berkley: my one and only concern was to protect the health and well being of the people of the state of nevada. that is my job. now, i wrote a letter to pete stark, but i sit on the same committee with them and i've known him for six years. he knows exactly what my husband did, does. let me tell you something. i know my opponent has attacked m
think of the impact it would have on the environment, the ability to create jobs here in nevada. let's always go back to the jobs and the ability to create jobs in america. i believe the sage grouse gets listed. i do. you need a senator that will fight back and realize and understand that talk to this administration and say if you reelect a we're in trouble. it will be a big, big concern. spent our next question comes from -- >> congresswoman berkley, in 2008 you wrote a letter to...
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you could look at the international trading environment and wonder about that. to me, and this is the answer to the question, and john would agree, the world in which the denied states is still strong but all the institutions are eroding is not a world i want to live in and therefore the united states does have an interest in trying its best to show up these institutions. >> bob is coming my way. this is great. >> a couple quick points. number one, my thesis is not that these institutions are independent. they are in fused with power and instruments of power and they are used to signal limits on power, power is never divorced from institutions. and in that regard, i argue that the u.s. has been so great on the world stage because it's tied the power to the institutions that spoke to make power more durable and expensive, but also making it more limited and less based on the indiscriminate arbitrary use of power in the traditional sense. so there is an argument about how the institutions can allow for the powerful state to be more influential by allowing to signa
you could look at the international trading environment and wonder about that. to me, and this is the answer to the question, and john would agree, the world in which the denied states is still strong but all the institutions are eroding is not a world i want to live in and therefore the united states does have an interest in trying its best to show up these institutions. >> bob is coming my way. this is great. >> a couple quick points. number one, my thesis is not that these...
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so, how do you get control of this kind of environment, right? sometimes, you know, sometimes you have these campaigns that continue to grow up with the dysfunction and you don't know what's happening in other campaigns. we heard the knives were sharpened in the clinton campaign but you don't know this and you don't really know, like poker you know what your hand is but don't know what the other hands are in the other campaigns until later down the campaign trail things start to show up in the news, right? where this campaign, unnamed campaign staffer said this about a named campaign staffer. maybe you start connecting dots there is some power centers that have emerged and, you know, some, and some warring factions maybe that might be happening in other campaigns. so if you don't get control of this early you grow up with this kind chaos. how did we do it? i give the candidate, i give the candidate all the credit. and there were three things getting towards a little bit to start that a little bit. three principles he gave our staff in the very ea
so, how do you get control of this kind of environment, right? sometimes, you know, sometimes you have these campaigns that continue to grow up with the dysfunction and you don't know what's happening in other campaigns. we heard the knives were sharpened in the clinton campaign but you don't know this and you don't really know, like poker you know what your hand is but don't know what the other hands are in the other campaigns until later down the campaign trail things start to show up in the...
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but i grew up in an environment with people around me who believed that this country could be better. that the framework for it was there. and we the people, we used to memorize the preamble to the constitution. i was thinking so fascinating to think of the black kids in the segregated school recreating preamble to the constitution or standing out and schoolyard saying the pledge of allegiance every day before school. what did we believe? everything is in front of you. it's wrong. you can't got public library. you can't live in certain neighborhood. you can't go to certain schools. but dispute all of that, you lifed in the environment of people who said it was still our birthright to be included and continue to push not only to change the laws, but to make contain that belief in our hearts. i think today we sort of think that the all of the work is done with the laws. the heavy lifting for us was done in here. because the people who raised us believe that it in here. and the nuns who taught us believed it in here. you know, today i was just down at louisiana state university, and if y
but i grew up in an environment with people around me who believed that this country could be better. that the framework for it was there. and we the people, we used to memorize the preamble to the constitution. i was thinking so fascinating to think of the black kids in the segregated school recreating preamble to the constitution or standing out and schoolyard saying the pledge of allegiance every day before school. what did we believe? everything is in front of you. it's wrong. you can't got...